Looks like the move is complete, and everyone's browser (firefox right?) should now be pointing to my new server at Textdrive. I jumped on their VCII (hosting for life) plan so as long as they (and I) live longer than a few years it'll be worth it. Textdrive's defiantly not for the technically weak, no hand holding but you'd be pressed not to find quick help on their active community forum. I'm moving from a host that answered EVERY support ticket within 10 minutes, so I was a bit surprised to have a textdrive ticket go unanswered for more than two days, but realizing I had shell access last night made me feel a bit better. One thing's for sure -- they understand the problems people who publish on the web face and are working together with their customers on things like comment and referral spam. For example, on my old host the first day of the month there would be 300 plus bogus referral links listed in my statistics thus making it next to impossible to see who is sending legitimate traffic to my site. The first day's stats on textdrive show zero spam referrals. It all makes sense now, handle this crap at the server/host level not the account/installation level.

I've upgraded to the most current version (3.16) of Movable Type, and newer versions of Gallery, PhotoStack, and a few other plugins like MT-Blacklist 2.04 and Brad Choate's MTIfEmpty which helped in creating my cruft-free URL's. Which brings me to my next point. All previous individual entry links have been broken. Google hates me, and I'm beginning to believe there's a special ring of hell reserved for people like me.

Oh well, life goes on (read: google will recrawl soon). I'm still finding files I didn't copy across, in some cases entire folders, so any feedback would be appreciated.

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